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Talking parts, talking back: Fleshing out linguistic citizenship
(UNICAMP, 2020)
These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of
colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of
a rampant global neoliberal and ...
Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on
their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ...
E-book usage amongst academic librarians in South Africa
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2011)
The purpose of this study completed in 2010 was to investigate the use of e-books amongst academic librarians; in
particular which e-books are available to academic librarians, why they choose this format, what impact ...
Santu Mofokeng, photographs: 'the violence is in the knowing'
(Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2009)
Born in 1956, Santu Mofokeng formed part of the Afrapix Collective that engaged in exposé
and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during
the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng ...
Journeys from the horizons of history: Text, trial and tales in the construction of narratives of pain
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 1996-10)
This article draws
inspiration from Jauss's theorisation of the concepts of horizon, reception, and
construction. The problem we confront relates to the way we receive, interpret,
and apply texts without cognisance of ...
Job satisfaction in a South African academic library in transition
(Elsevier, 2010)
Job satisfaction was investigated at a South
African university library undergoing
change on many fronts. The study included
31 members of staff and the data were
gathered via interviews/questionnaires,
informed by ...
Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ...
‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through
which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows
how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank ...
‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ...
Knowledge, values, and beliefs in the South African context since 1948: An overview
(Wiley, 2015)
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct waysin which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs tookshape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framedagainst the background of the ...